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Senator John McCain has warned that the US " have a strategy" for dealing with cyberwarfare tactics that may be employed by Russian, Chinese or North Korean agents, The Guardian reports. Speaking at the Republican party's annual retreat in Philadelphia, he reiterated the commonly-held belief among the US intelligence community that "the Russians were trying to influence the outcome of our election", and warned that America wasn't ready to respond to similar attacks on elections in Europe. View...

Notorious hacker group OurMine is back at it, hacking social media profiles to let the world know just how easy it can be to get inside an account.  This time, the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) group is at the receiving end. Several Twitter accounts affiliated with WWE, including those of WWE Universe, WWE NXT, wrestler and celebrity John Cena, WrestleMania, WWE Network and Summer Slam were hacked Saturday with the group OurMine claiming responsibility. View full story ORIGINAL...

Donald Trump refuses to give up his insecure Android-based smartphone even after becoming president. He continues to use his old Samsung Galaxy S3 to tweet from his @realDonaldTrump account. The president, who on Jan. 4, called the Democratic National Committee careless with its security while refering to election rival Hillary Clinton’s emails being hacked, is himself quite vulnerable to hacking. Hacking group Anonymous has repeatedly tweeted against Trump and has warned it will be targeting him....

What's the worst that could happen when a Ransomware hits a Hotel? Recently, hundreds of guests of a luxurious hotel in Austria were locked in or out of their rooms when ransomware hit the hotel's IT system, and the hotel had no choice left except paying the attackers.The Romantik Seehotel Jäegerwirt 4-Star Superior Hotel has admitted it paid €1,500 (£1,275/$1,600) in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to break into their network and hack their electronic key card...

An alleged computer hacker being held in the Czech Republic is at the center of an international legal tussle between the United States and Russia amid lingering disquiet over Moscow’s alleged interference in the recent US presidential election. Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, faces extradition requests from both countries after being detained by Czech police on an Interpol arrest warrant issued by US authorities. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Sci-Tech Today

Approximately 28 per cent of Americans are "not confident at all that the federal government can keep their personal information safe," the Pew Research Center reported on Thursday, while also noting that many Americans fail to observe security best practices when online. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Privacy International, a UK-based nonprofit founded in 1990, released a report showing that Microsoft is the only operating system vendor to have approved the Thai military government's root certificate by default, which is managed by the Electronic Transaction Development Agency (ETDA). The nonprofit worries that the Thai government could now perform “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attacks against Thai citizens. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tom's Hardware

2016 was a record year for data breaches, as the number of exposed records exceeded 4.2 billion, nearly four times than the previously set record. The latest release of Risk Based Security’s annual Data Breach QuickView report shows that there were 4,149 data breaches reported during 2016, down from the 4,326 data breaches reported in 2015. The number of exposed records, however, reached an all-time high that might not be easily equaled: 4.281 billion. View...

The same hacking group that targeted the US political system in the run-up to the country's presidential election last year was able to infiltrate the computer systems of a UK television network for almost a year, security experts have revealed. The network has not been named for legal reasons, and likely due to the strict non-disclosure agreements surrounding breach probes. Yet analysts from SecureWorks, a cybersecurity firm, say hackers gained access in July 2015 and...

Who are the federal government's rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes? The online campaign began with unauthorized tweets — on subjects such as climate change inconsistent with Trump's campaign statements and policies — that have been mostly deleted from official agency accounts. It shifted tactics Thursday as at least 40 new but unofficial "alternative" accounts for federal agencies began...